Showing off our kayaking skills.

We used sand to show the effects of erosion and deposition.

Hot Chocolate Recipe in Spanish

Hot Chocolate.

We have been out in the beautiful sunshine looking for inspiration for our shape poems.

We invited our parents in to see our Aztec dance and ukulele performance. We also enjoyed Mexican food. What a great end to an amazing Aztecs topic.

Aztec Hour

Aztec Dancing

Aztec Dancing

Aztec Dancing

Ukuleles 'Aztec Style!'

Ukuleles 'Aztec Style!'

Ukulele Monday

Our 'make your face funny for money' faces :)

Singing while we work on a rainy Wednesday afternoon.

This week, in Literacy, we have been looking at the impact different endings have on a reader. We have picked out language features and techniques an author uses to get the reader talking about their story or guessing at the end. We have looked at different types of endings: cliffhangers, morals, unfinished, question, dramatic etc. We looked at a well known fairy tale and changed the ending. Watch our videos. Can you tell which type of ending we have used?

Our Little Red Riding Hood alternative endings

Our Little Red Riding Hood alternative endings

Our Little Red Riding Hood alternative endings

We have been learning about the Qur'an and found out that Muslims learn sections of the Qur'an by heart. Mrs Hunter set us the challenge of learning a poem and reciting it to the rest of the class to understand how difficult it was. Have a look at how we did.......

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Setting descriptions

Here are the pictures from our visit to Carnforth High School. The children burnt different foodstuffs to see how much energy was in each of them.

We have learnt a song to remind of the multiples of 100 in Spanish :)

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Creation myth expressive dance

Today (Friday 15th January), the children in my class have worked extremely hard to produce an absolutely fantastic information page about castles. I am a very proud teacher. Watch this space to see the children's work.

Our castle information pages.

We have spent the first 2 weeks after Christmas continuing our 'Dungeons and Dragons' topic. We have had a great time making castles with a working drawbridge and portcullis. We had a visit from a medieval cook (Miss Stalker) to help us understand life working in a castle. We also looked at other roles within a castle: knight, squire, gong farmer, archer, servant, Lord, Lady, messenger, butler and chaplain etc. We used what we learnt about the roles and parts of a castle to create an information page.

Next week we start our new topic 'Amazing Aztecs'. This topic will run until Easter. Watch this space for examples and information about the work we have done.

Check out our awesome castles. They even have a working portcullis and drawbridge!

We have been learning about forces. We had a fantastic afternoon investigating the affect of up-thrust and gravity on objects. We found out that up-thrust and gravity are equal when an object is floating. An object will sink if the weight of the object is greater than the density of the water that it replaces when put in the water. We also investigated how the density of a liquid affects up-thrust. We dropped a marble into water, vegetable oil and syrup and noticed the marble took longer to sink in the syrup. This is because the syrup is denser so the up-thrust force is greater slowing the marble down. Do you know why the marble didn't float in the syrup?

Why do boats float??

Our stunning season calendars

Enterprise Week

This week, Y5 have been busy creating the 'latest addition to the Christmas decoration market'...the Glitterball! This beautiful decoration can be yours for just £1.00. It comes in a range of glittering colours and can be used to decorate your tree, light up your hallway, bring glamour to your mantelpiece or even as a unique table centre piece. The options are endless! Pick up your glitterball in class 5S at our Christmas Fair.

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

Glitterball Adverts

What a fantastic first half-term we had in year 5! Our 'Space-the final frontier' topic was a huge success, which the children loved.

We have just finished our mini topic '100 years ago'. It was wonderful to see children tackling pounds, shillings and pence together ignored to set up a market stall. thank you to everyone who got involved in this fantastic event.

Our new topic 'Dungeons and Dragons' has started. the children are going to write a newspaper report about a dragon attack, using scenes from 'How to train your dragon'. The children have written letters to mrs Penney persuading her to let us go to the castle. due to the fantastic persuasive writing styles the children used, the letters were a success and we have booked a trip to Lancaster castle on Wednesday 26th November.

It will soon be enterprise week, where the children will be making baubles and jigsaw wreaths to sell at the Christmas Fair with the intention of making a profit. We are excited about the events leading up to Christmas and are sure to have another successful half-term.

Miss Stalker

Torrisholme Market Street; lovely to see parents/grandparents and children all working together.